WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 . 00:31.000 --> 00:35.000 . 00:35.000 --> 00:36.000 . 00:35.000 --> 00:41.000 Hi and welcome to another edition of in the studio. I'm your host Scott Laws and with me today is Danny Tomasolo. How you doing Danny? 00:41.000 --> 00:42.000 Good Scott, how are you? 00:42.000 --> 00:52.000 All right. And we're going to be talking today about the Davis Music Festival, an annual festival that has just started this year, and hopefully will go 00:52.000 --> 00:57.000 continue on for a long time. 00:57.000 --> 01:00.280 Great. So, the festival just happened. 01:00.280 --> 01:05.400 Yes. And it was a great success. Absolutely. Yeah, the support has been 01:05.400 --> 01:09.600 overwhelming. So, yeah, it was great to get a first year under our belt. 01:09.600 --> 01:12.880 Good. Any 01:12.880 --> 01:16.760 hiccups, any success stories you want to talk about? Well, 01:16.760 --> 01:20.040 I'd say from a success story, 01:20.040 --> 01:25.400 really the folks that were interested from the get-go and the volunteers and 01:25.400 --> 01:26.000 the committee 01:26.000 --> 01:29.480 people, really that's how this whole thing happened. I just 01:29.480 --> 01:33.360 connected dots. So, as far as 01:33.360 --> 01:37.200 the bands themselves, hearing about it, 01:37.200 --> 01:40.280 contacting me with interest, you know, 01:40.280 --> 01:43.920 finding bands really wasn't that hard. A lot of people, the first thing you'd say 01:43.920 --> 01:47.120 is, hey, there's a music festival that I'm gonna try to put together. People would say, 01:47.120 --> 01:48.160 oh, I got a great band for you. 01:48.160 --> 01:52.320 And so, that... There's no shortage there for... No shortage of bands, but 01:52.320 --> 01:57.600 what we were going for were bands that would sell tickets on their own 01:57.600 --> 02:01.080 to a show, even if it was a couple dozen 02:01.080 --> 02:04.320 people paying five bucks to go see a house show. That was sort of the minimum 02:04.320 --> 02:05.280 criteria 02:05.280 --> 02:09.440 on bands. So, you know, just having a friend that has a band in a garage, there's 02:09.440 --> 02:13.520 lots of those. So, we wanted to have talent and then 02:13.520 --> 02:17.840 the sound people was also the real huge win there. 02:17.840 --> 02:21.000 Some very experienced sound folks that 02:21.000 --> 02:24.480 were very generous with their rates 02:24.480 --> 02:27.480 for this first year and hoping to grow with us too. 02:27.480 --> 02:30.760 Everybody likes the vision and wanted to grow, so 02:30.760 --> 02:34.960 I'd say those are definitely the successes. Great. So, Davis is a... 02:34.960 --> 02:38.120 You know, some people mentioned that Davis doesn't have a lot of 02:38.120 --> 02:41.040 live music and certainly not an annual music festival that you were putting 02:41.040 --> 02:41.600 together. 02:41.600 --> 02:44.880 Where do you... Did you come up with this idea on your own? 02:44.880 --> 02:49.160 I mean, did you get people coming in and telling you, hey... 02:49.160 --> 02:53.800 How it started was, my friend... I just like going to shows. I don't play any music. 02:53.800 --> 02:57.320 I'm not in the business. It's just a hobby of mine to go to see live music. I 02:57.320 --> 02:59.160 think it's really one of the last few 02:59.160 --> 03:02.520 moments in time that you capture with the artists 03:02.520 --> 03:05.520 live. It's there and you're with other... 03:05.520 --> 03:09.560 The camaraderie is great with other fans. So, my friend 03:09.560 --> 03:12.800 who I used to go to shows with a lot and still do occasionally, 03:12.800 --> 03:16.040 he said, hey, I'm putting on a golf tournament. 03:16.040 --> 03:18.800 It's a Blue and White Foundation golf tournament called Day on the Green and 03:18.800 --> 03:23.280 I'd like to have an after party with a concert, invite a few bands out, have a 03:23.280 --> 03:24.720 mobile stage and let people have a 03:24.720 --> 03:28.120 totally separate event, separate ticket and have people come enjoy the music after. 03:28.120 --> 03:28.880 And they still do it. 03:28.880 --> 03:32.960 It's in their third year, it was just recently. So, 03:32.960 --> 03:36.600 it was a success but it wasn't really focused on 03:36.600 --> 03:40.600 music and the fundraising wasn't particular to music art programs 03:40.600 --> 03:44.960 and it was just something that I thought, you know, we should have a dedicated day 03:44.960 --> 03:46.880 for this and maybe bring it downtown. 03:46.880 --> 03:49.920 Originally, I had Central Park rented 03:49.920 --> 03:53.680 and in this first year I was a little nervous about keeping Central Park. It 03:53.680 --> 03:54.560 was going to take a lot 03:54.560 --> 03:57.480 to pull that off and I didn't know how many people would show up. So, 03:57.480 --> 04:00.960 now we're definitely gonna look at that for 2012. 04:00.960 --> 04:04.200 But the... so, 04:04.200 --> 04:07.320 point being, when I start talking to people about 04:07.320 --> 04:10.800 the vision of what if we brought it downtown, one of the first people that 04:10.800 --> 04:14.240 was really helpful was Kevin Wan of Sophia's 04:14.240 --> 04:17.280 Thai Kitchen. He said, you know, it's a great idea. 04:17.280 --> 04:20.400 I think people tried it before. It hasn't worked for 04:20.400 --> 04:24.640 various reasons but I encourage you and if you do it, I'll help. So, 04:24.640 --> 04:28.000 you know, that was sort of response from... yeah, and I got that from 04:28.000 --> 04:32.680 Armadillo Music was next and I go in there a lot because I run off of space downtown 04:32.680 --> 04:37.440 and go in quite a bit and those guys were, you know, yeah, let's talk about it. 04:37.440 --> 04:41.720 And then my wife had worked on the Downtown Business Association so she had 04:41.720 --> 04:42.880 contacts to talk with. 04:42.880 --> 04:46.480 Without a doubt, Bob Bowen was critical in getting his 04:46.480 --> 04:49.840 input. In fact, it was August of last year that I 04:49.840 --> 04:52.840 first started talking with him. He was the first person. And what does he do? 04:52.840 --> 04:57.280 He's our, I think it's Public Relations Manager or City. He does... 04:57.280 --> 05:00.480 He puts on the engine. He's the coordinator for the City. Yeah, you know, 05:00.480 --> 05:04.480 the Tour of California stops that come here and a lot of 05:04.480 --> 05:08.280 events. He basically knows all the public events that are happening. 05:08.280 --> 05:11.400 Okay. And so he had some great advice about starting small, 05:11.400 --> 05:15.280 doing it well, and not trying to overshoot. 05:15.280 --> 05:18.280 Not trying to make it bigger than picking on too much and... 05:18.280 --> 05:22.000 Taking on too much, yeah. So that was key. 05:22.000 --> 05:25.160 And I'd say the other folks that were really helpful were 05:25.160 --> 05:30.680 the Davis Dirt Gals, the... I call them the Dirty Dames, but they're, yeah, they're 05:30.680 --> 05:34.000 the founders of that. It's a free newspaper publication that 05:34.000 --> 05:38.440 that lists all the art music happenings on a monthly basis. 05:38.440 --> 05:42.640 And they... And it's free. Free newspaper. They distribute it all downtown. 05:42.640 --> 05:46.200 I think something like 4,000 copies a month. And they 05:46.200 --> 05:49.520 put out the Festival Guide map. And were just really helpful 05:49.520 --> 05:52.840 all along the way. Well, and that's actually where I first learned about 05:52.840 --> 05:56.360 the festival was from the Davis Dirt. Oh, great. 05:56.360 --> 06:00.560 So I opened it up and yeah, I mean, I was excited to see that 06:00.560 --> 06:04.320 something like that was gonna happen because kind of what I was mentioning 06:04.320 --> 06:06.360 before was, you know, some people just don't... 06:06.360 --> 06:10.640 You know, know that there's some kind of live music. 06:10.640 --> 06:13.640 Right. Some, you know, Davis is full of musicians. 06:13.640 --> 06:16.800 Right. You know, and we have various places, you know, 06:16.800 --> 06:20.400 the farmers market. And of course, Kevin at Sophia's does a great job 06:20.400 --> 06:24.560 curating and bringing bands from all over the country, 06:24.560 --> 06:27.920 you know, on these, you know, self-supporting bands, bands that are out there 06:27.920 --> 06:31.560 putting out their own music and sort of this real grassroots thing. And he's really... 06:31.560 --> 06:34.560 They do a great job at that. So having him on your... 06:34.560 --> 06:38.560 Yeah, having his support was huge. And you know what? The other thing that he does 06:38.560 --> 06:42.560 that's...that was what I was interested in is not just 06:42.560 --> 06:46.760 showcasing local talent, because you're right, we have a lot of great local musicians. 06:46.760 --> 06:50.520 But if it's going to be an ongoing thing, it shouldn't just be Davis musicians. 06:50.520 --> 06:54.520 In fact, that's one flaw in the title of Davis Music Fest is that people think, 06:54.520 --> 06:58.800 well, you know, so these are all local bands. Well, no, it's also to showcase 06:58.800 --> 07:01.920 how many music fans there are in Davis and how... 07:01.920 --> 07:05.280 Look, we're right in between San Francisco and Portland. 07:05.280 --> 07:08.840 People literally drive past us on these tours. And to your point, you know, 07:08.840 --> 07:15.040 a lot of them are just do-it-yourself tours and, you know, why not have more 07:15.040 --> 07:19.520 stops for those bands that could do very well here? 07:19.520 --> 07:23.280 So Kevin does a great job of seeing that kind of talent. 07:23.280 --> 07:28.160 And so, yeah, that's why I got to know him, because I just would go to shows a lot. 07:28.160 --> 07:34.040 And I'd see other people, you know, out and they were all, like I said, very supportive. 07:34.040 --> 07:37.480 Let's talk about that as far as... 07:37.480 --> 07:43.480 Obviously, the volunteering and the community and the venues getting behind you 07:43.480 --> 07:46.480 is definitely helps a lot. 07:46.480 --> 07:47.000 Yeah. 07:47.000 --> 07:52.800 And so let's talk a little bit about the volunteer aspect of this. 07:52.800 --> 07:57.960 Like, this festival went off, I'm assuming, very well because a lot of people 07:57.960 --> 08:02.520 were willing to help you. They wanted to see it to come to fruition 08:02.520 --> 08:07.120 because they were live music supporters or just music enthusiasts to begin with. 08:07.120 --> 08:09.480 And so let's talk about that. 08:09.480 --> 08:13.080 So the people that have contacted me, and by the way, you know, 08:13.080 --> 08:18.680 for anybody that's interested as we grow, just, you know, info at davismusicfest.com 08:18.680 --> 08:22.800 and say, hey, that was a fun time. How do I participate in the future? 08:22.800 --> 08:24.000 Maybe even some feedback? 08:24.000 --> 08:29.760 Feedback, absolutely welcome feedback and ideas and, you know, we have a Facebook page. 08:29.760 --> 08:33.720 So people post things and suggestions and that's great. 08:33.720 --> 08:38.760 But the, you know, yeah, the specific volunteers that stepped up, again, 08:38.760 --> 08:41.480 a lot of it stemmed from Armadillo. 08:41.480 --> 08:46.160 My friend Landon at the Enterprise and Kat Jones at Armadillo now, 08:46.160 --> 08:50.440 it used to be Paychip. So, yeah, they were critical. 08:50.440 --> 08:52.480 It's going to be embarrassing if I try to name a bunch. 08:52.480 --> 08:57.360 But the point is they, yeah, they would just, you know, you'd say, 08:57.360 --> 08:59.600 hey, I think we need to do this or let's meet on a regular basis. 08:59.600 --> 09:00.960 And we started meeting a lot. 09:00.960 --> 09:04.440 And that's, I think, one of the things that we stopped doing, 09:04.440 --> 09:07.440 it's good to point out if anybody's trying to pull off an event like this, 09:07.440 --> 09:11.080 is you can have a huge meeting and you can talk about all these things. 09:11.080 --> 09:13.440 And it's just more like a brainstorming session. 09:13.440 --> 09:15.160 And we try and get down to the nitty gritty. 09:15.160 --> 09:21.960 What really is what I found is just have committees based on venue. 09:21.960 --> 09:26.400 So as far as growing, what I'd like to do is just and what we did this year is 09:26.400 --> 09:29.360 I have a show runner, they're connected with sound and they're connected with 09:29.360 --> 09:31.160 the three or four bands that are playing there. 09:31.160 --> 09:33.440 If for a specific venue for a specific venue. 09:33.440 --> 09:37.480 So you're right to your point, people were great on the on the committee side, 09:37.480 --> 09:39.880 but also without the venues, it wouldn't really work. 09:39.880 --> 09:43.120 So this is, you know, this is a model that's a South by Southwest style. 09:43.120 --> 09:44.440 So we need the venues. 09:44.440 --> 09:49.680 So Little Prague and Delta, Venus and Sophia's were great about, hey, this is, 09:49.680 --> 09:52.480 you know, this is your place for the day kind of thing. 09:52.480 --> 09:56.640 We said we'll provide sound, we'll provide the bands and we'll provide show runners. 09:56.640 --> 09:59.360 And they said, great, we'll just run our normal course of business. 09:59.360 --> 10:04.640 So if we are going to grow and add other venues, I mean, the vision down the road, 10:04.640 --> 10:08.000 I don't know how many years, but could be, hey, we close off a street. 10:08.000 --> 10:11.600 You have a stage at one side or we just have, you know, people turn the barbershop 10:11.600 --> 10:14.440 into a venue that day and you throw, you know, a couple of people in there. 10:14.440 --> 10:18.000 So there could be that type of a thing like they do in Austin. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.760 But again, we're baby steps. So we'll see. 10:20.760 --> 10:26.160 But in order to really grow, it does take that, you know, OK, 10:26.160 --> 10:28.560 this person is going to be in charge of this. 10:28.560 --> 10:30.880 It's like having that same show that night. Yeah. 10:30.880 --> 10:34.480 And then you get into discussions on, do you want to have the same genre 10:34.480 --> 10:38.760 in that one venue or do you want to have different genres and people are bouncing around? 10:38.760 --> 10:43.880 I mean, the idea is to be able to get to and from and go see different bands. 10:43.880 --> 10:48.400 So the schedule, as you've seen, is, you know, they overlap. 10:48.400 --> 10:49.520 So you have to make a decision. 10:49.520 --> 10:55.040 There are 20 bands and or and or DJs and you can't see them all, 10:55.040 --> 10:58.680 you know, their entire sets, but you can run around pretty good and you can catch a lot. 10:58.680 --> 11:04.520 So yeah. So if you have the means to get into all the venues and yeah, 11:04.520 --> 11:09.760 each person can sort of sort of map their way through the eight hours. Right. 11:09.760 --> 11:13.000 You know, starting from, oh, I want to see this right particular band 11:13.000 --> 11:16.160 or this particular act. And yeah. And then they know. 11:16.160 --> 11:21.080 And it's so great today with being able to, you know, just click a link to a dedicated web page. 11:21.080 --> 11:24.000 You hear some streaming music, decide, OK, yeah, that sounds right. 11:24.000 --> 11:25.680 My wheelhouse. I'm going to go check that out. 11:25.680 --> 11:28.080 Or maybe, you know, this is half I like half this set, 11:28.080 --> 11:31.640 but I'm going to zip over there and catch some of the other one. 11:31.640 --> 11:35.600 So, yeah, having everything in proximity is also pretty critical for that. 11:35.600 --> 11:40.760 But I think we could spread out, you know, with guys like Davis Petty Cab cruising around, 11:40.760 --> 11:44.440 taking people around, you know, you could definitely you could definitely do that. 11:44.440 --> 11:50.560 So, you know, and that's within walking distance or bike riding distance is kind of the goal there, too, 11:50.560 --> 11:53.520 with obviously Davis being such a bike centric. Yeah, it's very pedestrian. 11:53.520 --> 11:58.920 And I mean, even with the buses and like you said, the what do they call them? Petty taxis? 11:58.920 --> 12:01.120 Petty cab. Petty cab. Yeah. 12:01.120 --> 12:03.320 That's an easy way to get around and easy way to get around. 12:03.320 --> 12:04.720 Yeah. And they're they're supportive. 12:04.720 --> 12:08.920 So and that's the thing. It's, you know, everybody has been. 12:08.920 --> 12:11.280 That sounds like a great idea. Great idea. We're on board. 12:11.280 --> 12:17.400 So it's hopefully it will continue to be successful and, you know, just growth. 12:17.400 --> 12:20.160 And we may walk still. I don't want to run too much. 12:20.160 --> 12:26.320 But, you know, concentrate on keeping it, you know, do it well and doing it well and 12:26.320 --> 12:28.560 leaving people wanting more. Right. 12:28.560 --> 12:34.320 And I think the key is to about having non not just local bands is, you know, 12:34.320 --> 12:37.600 you got to get people out of their houses, even if they know the local music scene. 12:37.600 --> 12:43.080 You know, why would I go pay, you know, to see a bunch of different venues when I know 12:43.080 --> 12:47.000 all these bands, I can see them, you know, another time in the year. 12:47.000 --> 12:51.480 So bring some some artists in from out of town for them, for the for the music 12:51.480 --> 12:55.360 community, and then also try and, you know, bridge a gap between us and Sacramento, 12:55.360 --> 13:00.880 because Sacramento's got a lot of talent out there and, you know, great venues and 13:00.880 --> 13:03.760 good shows to be had. And they're so close. So. Yeah. 13:03.760 --> 13:08.600 Well, I know when I look at attending a particular festival or, you know, 13:08.600 --> 13:11.640 if it's somewhere local that I'm from, you always want those. 13:11.640 --> 13:16.520 You want to try to get a couple of staple artists that are that do have a local draw, 13:16.520 --> 13:20.640 you know, that that people will say, well, I'm going to go there. 13:20.640 --> 13:24.720 And but then, like you said, it is a good thing to have people that are from 13:24.720 --> 13:27.400 somewhere else in the country. Yes. Or somewhere else in the world. 13:27.400 --> 13:30.600 Right. Who actually, you know, there's lots of artists and lots of bands that are 13:30.600 --> 13:34.520 doing it themselves that are from other parts of the world. And I just think it's 13:34.520 --> 13:39.080 so it's so isn't it just it's pretty admirable to just pick up everything you 13:39.080 --> 13:43.400 have, get in a car and drive from spot to spot to spot to spot to spot, 13:43.400 --> 13:47.480 not knowing, you know, and just living on nothing because you just love music 13:47.480 --> 13:49.000 and you want to play and you want to perform for people. 13:49.000 --> 13:52.680 So that's pretty. Trying to make a little bit of cash and eat along the way. 13:52.680 --> 13:54.320 Right. Gas money. Yeah. 13:54.320 --> 13:55.760 And just say, hey, we pulled off a tour. 13:55.760 --> 14:01.240 If you if a band can go to a gig and get get some food from the venue and some gas 14:01.240 --> 14:04.080 money to get to the next gig, that's probably a successful, right? 14:04.080 --> 14:06.720 Successful. Maybe sell a CD or something. 14:06.720 --> 14:09.440 Yeah, exactly. Or get somebody on the mailing list or whatever. 14:09.440 --> 14:13.640 Yeah. So let's talk about the bands. 14:13.640 --> 14:18.840 Are you excited to see or who was I excited to see? 14:18.840 --> 14:20.320 Who were you excited to see? 14:20.320 --> 14:21.960 Yeah. That that you had. 14:21.960 --> 14:28.680 But that is a really hard question because so many I mean, I like every one of them. 14:28.680 --> 14:32.120 You know, and it is very, very important for me to state right now. 14:32.120 --> 14:34.920 I did not choose all the bands. It was not my sole choice. 14:34.920 --> 14:36.120 I had a booking committee. 14:36.120 --> 14:40.560 So, yeah, when you when you go to your info at Davis Music Fest, 14:40.560 --> 14:46.680 don't yell at me or try and entice me particularly because it's not it's not my my show. 14:46.680 --> 14:49.120 You know, it's not Danny's Music Festival. It's Davis Music Festival. 14:49.120 --> 14:55.160 So, you know, there is a booking committee and but, you know, 14:55.160 --> 14:59.160 it's hard to say who I'm excited to see or who I was who was going into it. 14:59.160 --> 15:03.120 But the Blank Tapes are a really cool band from San Francisco. 15:03.120 --> 15:08.240 And they were I was surprised at how fast they responded that, yeah, they wanted to play. 15:08.240 --> 15:14.640 Musical Cheris is from Sacramento and gaining some a lot of headway 15:14.640 --> 15:16.680 as far as outside of the area. 15:16.680 --> 15:21.280 Truth and Salvage Company were they supported the Black Crows all of 2009. 15:21.280 --> 15:23.720 So it was nice that they were available. 15:23.720 --> 15:28.160 It's right in the same type of style. Some of the other bands, 15:28.160 --> 15:34.400 you know, a lot of my bands I've seen a lot like G Green and I'm excited about having at the festival. 15:34.400 --> 15:41.760 Yeah. And then, you know, locally, Miss Lonely Hearts or Blast, West Nile Ramblers. 15:41.760 --> 15:45.240 I just saw them the other night. Yeah. At the Art Walk. 15:45.240 --> 15:50.440 Oh, yeah. Friday. They were good. Good. So, yeah, it's a. 15:50.440 --> 15:54.360 And it's a tough question. I don't want you to choose favorites. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 15:54.360 --> 15:59.360 Do you have any other one? Just to say is Uncle Tony was nice to have them because their high school band. 15:59.360 --> 16:04.320 And they did really well at the Jammies. And I think if the Jammies wasn't, you know, 16:04.320 --> 16:07.160 it's heavily on popularity, I think they probably would have won. 16:07.160 --> 16:09.400 But that was nice that they're that they're here. 16:09.400 --> 16:13.400 It's another aspect of the community. You know, you can you're able to pull and, 16:13.400 --> 16:19.040 you know, highlight people that are young and just starting right now and who may have, 16:19.040 --> 16:23.160 you know, really have something to gain from from being put in a festival like this. 16:23.160 --> 16:27.880 Yeah. If not just for their own confidence and their own creative outlet. 16:27.880 --> 16:31.200 Right. Just to feel good about doing something like that. 16:31.200 --> 16:35.240 Who are you? Do you have any sort of fantasy for, say, next year? 16:35.240 --> 16:39.240 Do you have any say, you know, I really like to have Tom Waits? 16:39.240 --> 16:43.320 No, I could just put a phone call into Tom Waits. Yeah. No, I don't. 16:43.320 --> 16:48.360 I don't yet. It's too, you know, a lot of it is really. 16:48.360 --> 16:54.560 But yeah, but it's also timing on on album releases and their existing tours. 16:54.560 --> 17:00.160 Because let's face it, you know, Tom Waits would have to be literally at a barbecue that day 17:00.160 --> 17:03.360 and and out of the goodness of his heart, decided he wanted to play because, 17:03.360 --> 17:07.200 you know, we wouldn't and we that's that's probably not going to happen for quite a while. 17:07.200 --> 17:09.360 We live too far away from here. Yeah. 17:09.360 --> 17:11.400 So I think it would be interesting. 17:11.400 --> 17:14.120 I think, you know, it would be really fun band to have at some point. 17:14.120 --> 17:16.680 If we did have Central Park would be cake. Yeah. 17:16.680 --> 17:20.680 Sacramento fun. You know, they're selling out, you know, the Fillmore multiple nights in a row. 17:20.680 --> 17:23.800 So having them play would be fun. 17:23.800 --> 17:26.360 And beyond that, I don't know. 17:26.360 --> 17:31.400 Well, we'll see. Like I said, it depends on showrunners, 17:31.400 --> 17:37.680 who's who's willing to take sort of these roles and then what albums are coming out and who's on tour as it is. 17:37.680 --> 17:44.560 Yeah. So as a sort of, I guess, a logistical part of, say, next year's show or things. 17:44.560 --> 17:53.680 Do you have things in mind as far as, you know, having a website or a contact for bands to from this point on say, hey, you know, 17:53.680 --> 17:55.280 oh, we want to we're interested. 17:55.280 --> 18:01.120 Again, I think that info at Davis Music Fest dot com is still the best place for that volunteers or bands and just, 18:01.120 --> 18:02.760 you know, send your links if you want. 18:02.760 --> 18:04.720 And people will sort sort through it. 18:04.720 --> 18:08.000 And you said Facebook Facebook page is good. Yeah. 18:08.000 --> 18:13.280 Facebook rather not have people just post their links to their bands on the wall because that's yeah, it starts to get cluttered. 18:13.280 --> 18:17.720 If you're interested in being involved in the festival, say maybe next year. 18:17.720 --> 18:20.640 Right. Then I would still I think an email is the best approach. 18:20.640 --> 18:23.720 And then or, you know, we have a blog. 18:23.720 --> 18:28.160 So Davis Music Fest dot com, I guess people could post on there, too, you know, 18:28.160 --> 18:31.080 and in the comments section under last lineup or something. 18:31.080 --> 18:34.960 But by the way, it was on the top of my head. 18:34.960 --> 18:37.480 Shane and the Bulldog was another awesome. 18:37.480 --> 18:40.800 That was great having them contribute this year. 18:40.800 --> 18:44.640 Really nice guys. And their album is solid. 18:44.640 --> 18:47.600 So I was happy that they are on board as well. 18:47.600 --> 18:49.960 Where are they from here? They are from. 18:49.960 --> 18:54.480 Yeah. And and that's definitely an album people should check out. 18:54.480 --> 18:57.200 What is their style? I didn't catch them. 18:57.200 --> 19:01.600 It's. That's a good question. I'm horrible at that. 19:01.600 --> 19:04.280 I know. And I hate when people. Yeah. Yeah. 19:04.280 --> 19:08.840 I would just say they're just indie folk rock, I guess. 19:08.840 --> 19:13.160 Five and four piece. They four the other night. 19:13.160 --> 19:17.200 Five. Yeah, I think so sort of the bass drums guitar. 19:17.200 --> 19:20.000 Maybe you keep order. Yeah. Yeah. I think four. Yeah. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.960 So I don't know. I just I like their album a lot. 19:22.960 --> 19:27.000 So I was I was excited that they were playing. 19:27.000 --> 19:30.120 Now, they just had one album out. Yeah. 19:30.120 --> 19:33.200 Once their self-titled album. Yeah, I think they may have had some earlier releases. 19:33.200 --> 19:38.680 But, you know, and the other thing to talk about with as far as growth. 19:38.680 --> 19:41.960 So KDRT awesome support. 19:41.960 --> 19:47.960 KDVS had a few DJs. I would really like to consider having them manage a venue. 19:47.960 --> 19:51.960 So you say this is the K this is the KDRT stage or this is the KDVS stage. 19:51.960 --> 19:55.200 And let those guys because they, you know, they're in tune with what's 19:55.200 --> 19:59.400 maybe what they're now really hot on their exact venue or their exact medium there. 19:59.400 --> 20:03.200 Yep. I mean, you know, KDVS has their festival, the Operation Restore 20:03.200 --> 20:05.880 Maximum Freedom Festival, Freedom Festival out at Plainfield Station. 20:05.880 --> 20:08.480 And it's you know, it's KDVS bands. 20:08.480 --> 20:11.880 So those bands are, you know, so and that's a great time. 20:11.880 --> 20:15.840 And and but I think it's definitely attracts a niche music fan. 20:16.920 --> 20:21.920 So it would be it'd be it'd be good to let them have a stage at a festival 20:21.920 --> 20:25.160 like ours with a style that you can come and go because then people can swing 20:25.160 --> 20:29.160 through and or or like I said, check them out beforehand on MySpace or whatever. 20:29.160 --> 20:31.080 Whatever the MySpace is going to be in the down the road. 20:31.680 --> 20:34.040 Yeah. Or Facebook or whatever happens to be. 20:34.040 --> 20:36.000 Yeah. Might be different by next year. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.920 There might be another social media site. 20:37.920 --> 20:39.600 I don't know. Yeah. 20:39.600 --> 20:42.200 What do you think about doing more than one day? 20:42.200 --> 20:43.440 I think that's very interesting. 20:43.440 --> 20:48.200 Doing more than one day. I think it's you know, it's definitely something to consider. 20:48.600 --> 20:50.440 Yeah. I mean, a multiple day festival would be awesome. 20:50.440 --> 20:52.640 Find it by next year. You might have a lot of bands. 20:52.640 --> 20:55.200 Yeah. You know, I think, you know, about it. 20:55.200 --> 20:58.200 I think, again, that the bands is not the hard part. 20:58.200 --> 20:59.520 It's the logistics part. 20:59.520 --> 21:03.520 And two days and overnight for people that are coming from out of town. 21:03.520 --> 21:07.640 It means, you know, it means cleaning up between the night and the next day. 21:08.240 --> 21:09.400 I don't know. It's a lot to consider. 21:09.400 --> 21:11.040 Just sort of gets exponentially bigger. 21:11.040 --> 21:13.120 Yeah. I would say that probably wouldn't be your two. 21:13.600 --> 21:15.320 I would say it's probably going to be down the road. 21:15.320 --> 21:17.240 But I would like to have. 21:17.240 --> 21:23.680 More of a street type of a block off type of thing or or or Central Park again. 21:23.680 --> 21:26.000 I think Central Park is going to is going to be huge. 21:26.720 --> 21:30.920 Privacy screenings and beer garden and, you know, bathrooms inside 21:30.920 --> 21:33.200 and two stages facing opposite directions. 21:33.200 --> 21:38.760 And people can spend some time in there and maybe have that shut down at an early hour 21:38.760 --> 21:43.000 and then have people go into the sort of kick off the festival with. 21:43.000 --> 21:46.320 A huge central park type thing and then have people be able to see this, 21:46.320 --> 21:51.160 because there is there's a difference between an outside huge venue type of a festival 21:51.640 --> 21:54.880 and a festival like ours or a South by Southwest, 21:54.880 --> 21:58.200 where they're all venues that have a maximum capacity, some of them of 100 people. 21:58.200 --> 21:59.600 Yeah. You know, or 200 people. 21:59.600 --> 22:01.040 So, I mean, that's the thing. 22:01.040 --> 22:02.800 You know, this this does sell out. 22:02.800 --> 22:04.280 And I don't know the numbers yet. 22:04.280 --> 22:05.600 I don't think we sold out this first year. 22:05.600 --> 22:10.440 But but, you know, it's not the type of thing where we want droves and droves 22:10.440 --> 22:12.840 of people to just come in and linger around. 22:12.840 --> 22:15.360 You know, you want to you want we want everybody who has a wristband 22:15.360 --> 22:19.360 to enjoy the show and have a have a good time and, you know, be able to get in and all that stuff. 22:19.360 --> 22:23.800 Yeah. So, you know, give the make it worth everybody's wild. 22:23.800 --> 22:28.040 Right. The venues and and, you know, make it worth their time and their space. 22:28.040 --> 22:30.920 And and obviously yours. 22:30.920 --> 22:34.640 You can hopefully do it next year and do it for subsequent years after that. 22:34.640 --> 22:36.360 Yeah, it's great. 22:36.960 --> 22:38.560 And the other thing is, you know, 22:38.560 --> 22:42.840 the other thing we need help with is actually the actual nonprofit, because again, 22:42.840 --> 22:44.880 this is not Danny's Music Festival. 22:44.880 --> 22:49.720 It's actually put on by a nonprofit that I did start, but it's called Music Only Makes Sense. 22:49.720 --> 22:51.760 And because we don't make any money. 22:51.760 --> 22:56.840 So it's it's it's the nonprofit that's designed to all the proceeds go like this year goes 22:56.840 --> 22:58.800 to the Davis Schools Arts Foundation. Right. 22:58.800 --> 23:00.360 So we'll write them a check. 23:00.360 --> 23:03.760 And that doesn't have to be Davis Schools Arts Foundation every year. 23:03.760 --> 23:09.440 So it depends on, you know, where this ends up and who's who's involved. 23:09.440 --> 23:12.280 And maybe some of it goes to the schools, arts foundation. 23:12.280 --> 23:15.160 Maybe some goes to a Sacramento similar type of a who knows. 23:15.160 --> 23:18.560 So did you approach the Davis Arts Foundation? 23:18.560 --> 23:20.280 Yeah. Davis Schools Arts Foundation. 23:20.280 --> 23:24.680 They come. Yeah. No, actually, I tried to do I was really actually the Davis Schools Foundation. 23:24.680 --> 23:26.560 We're very helpful. We met with them first. 23:26.560 --> 23:30.840 And we wanted to earmark the money specifically to music, art and performing arts programs. 23:30.840 --> 23:33.360 And they said, you know, it's it's not the kind of thing you can do. 23:33.360 --> 23:35.960 It's just the way their board is set up. 23:35.960 --> 23:39.840 They you know, they take all school needs into consideration. 23:39.840 --> 23:47.960 So, you know, part of the way this festival is working as as a nonprofit is you ask these guys to perform for a lot less than they probably would make elsewhere. 23:47.960 --> 24:00.440 Yeah. So to entice them to do that, because you're going to raise money for a science class is not as easy as, you know, hey, it's going to benefit schools and, you know, the music and art performing arts departments that they probably benefited from when they were kids. 24:00.440 --> 24:08.840 So it's a direct tie in. And the school's foundation folks said, oh, you need to talk to the DSAF, which I didn't even know existed, frankly. 24:08.840 --> 24:14.600 So so so so we got in touch with them and they were they were thrilled to be the beneficiary. 24:14.600 --> 24:24.040 And do you have any idea how they how they disperse the money as far as is it just I believe that they yeah, we've we've had conversations with them. 24:24.040 --> 24:29.840 It's mainly on equipment and staff and, you know, class classes that they offer. 24:29.840 --> 24:47.200 Maybe. Yeah. I mean, that's, you know, how we got into this whole my my 10 year old Maddie's over there sitting there and she's, you know, she's in Willett Elementary and we get asked every year to, you know, kick in money before the schools because the states broke and programs are. 24:47.200 --> 24:52.000 As parents. As parents, you have you're asked a lot, not only money, but also time. 24:52.000 --> 25:03.840 And so this year I didn't I wasn't in any of their classrooms doing anything volunteer wise. So I thought, well, maybe I can focus efforts on a festival that raises money for the same for the schools. 25:03.840 --> 25:13.760 So that's that was another sort of driver. But, yeah, I mean, if you're a parent in town, you know, you're getting hit up for wrapping paper and everything else to, you know, because they're budget. 25:13.760 --> 25:16.560 Yeah, it's yeah, they're they're they're having a tough time. 25:16.560 --> 25:22.480 So if this can get big and be a way to sustain music programs, because you've got to think those are elective courses, right? 25:22.480 --> 25:28.200 Those are yes. Those are the ones that are most jeopardy. Those are the ones that are getting cut. Right. The quickest. 25:28.200 --> 25:34.360 Yeah. And they know it's volunteer teachers and, you know, it's hand me down equipment and it's all that stuff. 25:34.360 --> 25:37.920 So, yeah, that's there's definitely a need. 25:37.920 --> 25:49.240 So and being a Davis resident and a parent, obviously, you realize how many opportunities and outlets there are for children and for young kids to get involved in activities, 25:49.240 --> 25:57.040 whether it's sports or or music, you know, whether it's in in school music or at the Arts Council. 25:57.040 --> 26:05.080 Yeah. It's really important to, you know, to drive that home, that if you have a festival, if you're doing some sort of benefit. 26:05.080 --> 26:12.000 That people are aware and they know why they're doing it. It just makes it that much more community based. 26:12.000 --> 26:15.920 You know, just the purpose. It's a nice, feel good rapper on a fun time. You're absolutely right. 26:15.920 --> 26:22.640 Yeah, I know that was that was and the Davis Art Center is another area that we want to build on. 26:22.640 --> 26:26.440 And, you know, like you said, what about music and art festival? 26:26.440 --> 26:30.200 And that's it's another consideration, but it's a whole nother. 26:30.200 --> 26:45.080 I don't know that much about art. So yeah. But I think, you know, a lot there is a lot of crossover of artists that, you know, like like music and like a lot of the music that we're sort of having showcase their talents at this thing. 26:45.080 --> 26:51.680 And I think it's you know, they're out of all the any festival you could probably think of that has been around for a while. 26:51.680 --> 26:57.680 It probably has changed and morphed into. Yeah. Into something other than just what it started out as. 26:57.680 --> 27:07.880 Right. You know, I mean, or it's it's a music festival that's gone on for a number of years and then maybe somebody else has started a satellite festival that happens the same time. 27:07.880 --> 27:14.520 And, you know, you don't necessarily have to run it, but somebody else may be having an art festival that weekend. Right. Right. 27:14.520 --> 27:19.560 Yeah. And it ties into it altogether. Right. Ties into it. Yeah. That's that's a good point. 27:19.560 --> 27:27.120 Well, that's great. It's great talking to you today. And congratulations on the success of this year's Davis Music Festival. 27:27.120 --> 27:32.800 Hopefully next year will be even better. Hopefully just as successful, hopefully even more successful. 27:32.800 --> 27:41.480 Like, again, it's a community. Sounds like it's a very strong community. Yeah. Organized and participants are, you know, everybody's here in Davis. 27:41.480 --> 27:53.280 They want to go out and see music, hopefully with a good conscience, knowing that it's going to get back to the kids or just certain programs here in town, which is very key. 27:53.280 --> 28:06.960 What would you like to say in finishing tonight? I think I guess I would just like to say thanks to everybody from the musicians, volunteers, the venue owners, 28:06.960 --> 28:10.920 all the committee members, of course, and and the fans, music fans. 28:10.920 --> 28:17.920 I mean, without people going out and actually caring still about live shows, they wouldn't, you know, have them. 28:17.920 --> 28:20.560 Awesome. Thanks, Danny. Thank you. Thanks for having me. 28:20.560 --> 28:28.000 All right. Well, that's another episode of In the Studio. I'm your host, Scott Laws, with Davis Music Festival founder, Danny Tomasello. 28:28.000 --> 28:56.000 Thank you. And we'll see you next time.